Tuesday Blind Tastings
Clonakilla O'Riada Shiraz 2015
Canberra District, Australia
Price: $40
Rating: 95
Source: Cellar
Description: Medium colour with crimson on the rim. Spice, vanilla, cocoa, pepper and spearmint on the nose. The palate was delicate with red spicy fruit and soft tannins. A delicious wine drinking near its best.
Tasting date: 03 December 2019
699.The Riesling Steinmassel 2002 by Weingut Brundlemayer is delicious. Apple and mineral nose with bright lime and orange flavors, some tropical fruit, and nuttiness. Great energy balanced with a soft sensual mouthfeel. 700.Dr. Unger is a high quality producer that makes stunning wines in the Kremstal region. His 2002 Riesling Reserve shows considerable restraint on the nose with the faintest suggestion of peaches before it attacks the palate with lime juice, cooked peaches, and bright kiwi fruit flavors. Crisp and dry. On the finish, an obvious flavor of white pepper resonates. At 13.5 percent alcohol, this is a full-bodied wine and one to pair with food. Salmon in pastry would be perfect. 701.Some of the best Austrian Rieslings come from the Wachau region. 702.Austria makes excellent sweet wines with racy, cleansing acidity. 703.Extratrocken, trocken, halbtrocken, sss, beerenauslese (BA), and trockenbeerenauslese are terms that can appear on an Austrian wine label to indicate increasing levels of sweetness. Extratrocken means bone dry and a trockenbeerenauslese (TBA) is lusciously sweet from grapes shriveled by botrytis. 704.Austrian BA and TBA are less expensive than their German counterparts, and much less so than Sauternes.They offer great value. 184 1000 BEST WINE SECRETS 705.Burgenland is the most important